How to Play — Wordle rules, colours & every game explained.
How to play, all on one page: the Wordle rules in one minute with a worked CRANE example, what green, yellow and grey really mean — duplicate letters included — and how this solver turns your colours into a shrinking word list. Below that, short guides to Quordle’s four boards, the Wordscapes letter wheel and the Hive’s seven letters. New players start at the top; stuck players jump straight to the game they are playing.
New to Wordle?
How to play — the game in one minute
Wordle gives you a secret 5-letter word to find. That’s the whole game:
- Guess any 5-letter word. You get 6 tries in total.
- Look at the colours. After each guess, every tile changes colour to give you a clue.
- Guess again, smarter. Use the colours to rule letters in or out, until all 5 tiles turn green — that’s a solve.
A small example. You guess CRANE and get:
That tells you: A is the 3rd letter, R is in the word but not in spot 2, and there is no C, N or E. A word like SHARP still fits all of that — so it would be a smart next guess.
Stuck?
How this solver helps you
You play in Wordle as normal. Whenever you want help, bring your colours here:
- Make a guess in Wordle and note the colours you get.
- Type that same guess on the board on the Solver page.
- Tap each tile until its colour matches the colour from Wordle — tap once for yellow, twice for green.
- See what’s left. The solver instantly shows the words that still fit, plus a best next guess.
- Play that guess in Wordle, get new colours, enter them the same way here — and repeat until you solve it.
That’s it. No account, nothing to learn — just copy your colours across and let the list shrink.
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Quordle — Wordle’s bigger test
Quordle hides four secret words at once, one per board, and gives you nine guesses in total. Every guess is played on all four boards at the same time, and each board colours it against its own word — so one guess gives you four patterns to read at once. The winning habit is to open with words that spread common letters widely, bank any board that gets down to one possibility, and never waste a late guess re-testing letters you have already ruled out. Solve all four boards inside nine guesses to win; the words are revealed if you run out.
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Wordscapes — the letter-wheel crossword
Wordscapes turns the letters loose instead of hiding them: you can see every letter you have, on a wheel below a crossword. Swipe across the letters to spell a word; if that word belongs in the grid, it fills in, and letters where words cross fill both words at once. Real words that fit the letters but aren’t in the crossword still count — they’re banked as bonus words for coins, and coins buy hints that reveal a hidden letter. Fill the whole grid to clear the level and unlock the next — the ten levels are shuffled into a fresh order on every visit, running from 3-letter wheels up to 7-letter ones, so no two runs start the same way.
Seven Letters, One Centre?
The Hive — our Spelling Bee
The Hive shows you seven letters in a hexagon — six around one gold centre letter. Make words of four letters or more using only those letters, as often as you like, but every word must include the centre letter. A 4-letter word scores 1 point and longer words score a point per letter; a pangram that uses all seven letters earns a 7-point bonus. Your rank climbs from Beginner through Genius at 70% of the hive’s points — and Queen Bee means you found every single word.